St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-04-02
THE CHICAGO MUDDLEs
Mayor Harrison Alleged to Have Been is
Conference with the Socialists
Yesterday.
The Reds Jubilant Over the Prospect o.
Success Blatant Joe Gruen-
hut Talks.
Mr. Onahan, Prominent Democrat.
Repudiates the Labor Party
Entirely.
CONFUSION in the Wards--An UnS
avafling Club Meeting Last
Night.

CHICAGO, April 1.-Emissaries from the
soclallstlc headquarters have had frequeIA
communications with Mayor Harrison to.
day, and they now boldly assert that theJ
can show list of 40, 600 pledged voters fol
the socalistic ticket. 10 Gruenhut, the
leading light of the socialists, and a city
employe under Harrison, says:
History is being made very fast Just now.
you see. Chicago is European colony, Ths
masses are day laborers who do not own theil
business. Three hundred firms employ l5O.
COo workmen within ten miles Of the city hall.
II is distinctly capitalistic city. Here the
hight is to be made between labor and capital
Iney are now face to face and the time has
come Harrison is playing a peculiar part
He was never elected by Democrats The
socialists made him. He has been honest
enough to at last acknowledge it. The tablet
have changed. The socialists have their OWE
ticket and the Democrats are asked to
GET OUT OF THE WAY.
The mayor is in a place to help them, u
mas been done. The Democrats will now re,
turn the compliment by voting the socialist,
ticket. This is the unGerstandIn q The pres
ent holders OF appointive Offices will not be
disturbed. On Tuesday next all of the wheeL
horses of the Democracy will vote our ticket
knowing they will share the benefits. The
campaign will cost them nothing anS
their old enemies, the Republicans
will go down before the fusion ticket
Ialk about the Irish! / tell you that coercioE
Dill is making lrishmen into wild socialists
every day. We will carry every Irish ward II
Chicago By next Sunday evening peopls
may become desperate for fear Of the sociak
lists. TIE citizens may rise up in day and
compel all party lines to be dropped and de-
mand union of all citizens to defeat the
socialists If they become alarmed at the
his iR
between the American commune and the cap
italists. 1t is irresistible.
Two letters issued this evening are Great.
ing much comment. The first was from
Mayor Harrison's appointee as city col,
lector, William Onahan, widely known as
the president of the Irish Catholic Colo,
niZatiOn society. Mr.. Onahan was the
Democrat candidate for city treasurer. His
letter emphatically announces that, unlike
Mayor Harrison, he will, under no circum.
stances. give the slightest aid to the elec.
ton OF ticket put forward and cham4
ploned by all the known and avowed allies
OF socialism and anarchy" Continuing,
MR.. ONAHAN SAYS:
Mr.. Powderly, who represents and is the of.
hcial spokesman for the legitimate labor or,
CARNATIONS OF the country, repudiates ard
disavows, as l am Informed the action of the
political body which assumes to nut itself for
ward in Chicago as labor party.
The success of the so-called labor ticket,
the latter declares, would be fatal to the
business interests of the city and the rea
welfare of the laboring classes. Mr.. Onss
han concludes with the words:
If must choose election day between the
Republican ticket and that championed by
the socialists, shall vote the Republican
ticket.
The other letter causing discussion is
from Robert Nelson, the United Labor can.
didate for mayor Mr.. Nelson saws in il
that he will, if elected, regard the Office Of
ffas or as q F:.:.. and grave. pnblic trnst,
Efficiency will be his sole guide in nlakins
appointments or removals from Office. and
property and the rights of the people win
be protected and the laws enforced. Re-
publicans and Democrats alike pronounce
Mr.. Nelson's letter a sop to the legion OF
Democratic officers and city employees.
THE COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC CLUB,
an organization occupying middle ground
between the silk-stOcking and the short
hair element of the party, held a meeting
tonight presided over by Charles Kern, at
which it was expected that an anti-Harri-
son Democrat would be nominated for,
mayor, or the Republican nominee.
Roche, indorsed. Nothing of either kind
was attempted and the meeting adjourned
without traDsacting any important bust.
ness. The Democratic South town cons
vention assembled to-day but failed to put
up any candidates for town offices or dc
anything else. So great is the confusion
in Democratic circles that in number of
the wards there are no Democratic candi.
dates for places as aldermen.